Update .git/config files for local repos to use SSH

change-git-repos-to-use-ssh.md

If you have SSH keys added to your GitHub account you can switch your repos to use SSH

1. Disable credential.helper

• Check if credential.helper is set to anything git config -l --global
• Unset credential.helper with git config --global --unset credential.helper

2. Verify URLs are as expected. Then add a -i to sed to update in place(in the .git/config file)

find . -type f -path '*.git*/*' -name 'config' | xargs -I {} sed 's/https:\/\/github.com\//git@github.com:/g' {} | grep url

3. ❗️ Update .git/config files

Below command will update the .git/config files in place. Please make sure you understand the below command before running it.

find . -type f -path '*.git*/*' -name 'config' | xargs -I {} sed -i '' 's/https:\/\/github.com\//git@github.com:/g' {}

4. gh cli: gh config set git_protocol ssh --host github.com